Senior Staff, Research Engineer

Lab Summary:

We are an interdisciplinary team with an aim to empower providers, consumers, and clinical researchers. We create prognostic biomarkers by applying clinically explainable AI on advanced sensing technology, explore use cases by co-innovating with our partners, and design services through pilots that eventually turn into groundbreaking commercial, consumer-grade products that are used every day. Our work has been internationally recognized with 70+ peer-reviewed publications and 10 design awards.

Position Summary:

Samsung Research America Digital Health Team is looking for an outstanding Ph.D.-level Senior Research Engineer with solid ML/AI technology background and digital health-related research project experiences in digital biomarker, physiological signal process and multi-modality mobile sensing development. You need to have a strong track-record of success in academic and/or industrial settings. You will play a key role in delivering innovation in digital health domain, create technologies and intellectual properties, deploy and validate novel technologies, and transfer the mature outcomes to production and scientific publications in top-tier computing venues. We expect candidates who have solid data analytics skills and project experiences in areas such as mobile health systems and wearable computing.

You will be a core part of a passionate team charged with developing, incubating, and launching a portfolio of digital health product concepts that will disrupt the healthcare paradigm. By leveraging smart phones, wearables, embedded devices and the IoT in the health/wellness domain, your work will significantly benefit real-world patients, seniors, physicians and care givers. Samsung’s unique advantage in the consumer electronics market and growing focus on digital health will provide you with exciting technical challenges and a rewarding career experience.

Position Responsibilities:

• Work with project team and contribute to data analysis, performance evaluation and other project milestone related tasks.
• Lead the development of innovative ideas and algorithms based on noisy signals from sensors including, but not limited to, light, audio, physiological, and inertial sensor data collected both in lab and field settings.
• Prepare proof-of-concept, demo / prototypes, design and execute pilot studies with mobile sensors.
• Generate patents and scientific research papers for top-tier publications.

 Experience Required.

• Ph.D in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Biophysics, Mathematics, health sciences or related areas or similar or equivalent combination of education, training, and experience
• 10+years of experience in one or more of the following programming languages: Python, Java, Android, MATLAB, R
• Demonstrable knowledge and experience in Image Processing, Machine Learning, Signal Processing, and their applications on mobile sensor data collected in lab and in the wild
• Strong interpersonal and collaboration skills, ability to present complex information in an understandable and compelling manner, and comfortable working with multi-disciplinary teams
• Publications in top-tier computing venues

Special Attributes

• Experience in computer vision, time-series data analytics.
• Strong mathematics background, especially statistics.
• Turn the analyzed data into actionable insight and/or understandable visualization.
• On-device implementation of ML/AI algorithms in C/C++/Java.
• Clinical study design, IRB development, in-lab and/or in-the-wild data collection studies.
• Product development and prototyping experience in order to implement and validate solutions.
• Experience in designing and conducting studies of wearable devices or clinical-trials with human subjects both in lab and field settings.
• Good understanding of human physiology, non­invasive sensors used to measure digital biomarkers for health and behavior monitoring.
• Working experience with optoelectronics sensors and data analysis.
• Experience in embedded systems development and performance analysis.
• Previous experience developing algorithms in healthcare research/industry using EMR/EHR and wearable sensor data.
• Have working knowledge of the healthcare industry and experience curating and analyzing healthcare and wellness data.
• Proficiency in the Android/Tizen/iOS development environment with the ability to create fully working prototypes.
• Experience in collaborating on software implementations of algorithms and computing models with client and cloud engineers.
• Understanding of human factors, usability and comfort with wearable sensors.
• Experience operating under HIPAA is a plus.